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Ten Years Later: Will We Ever Hold Torturers Accountable?
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn New York University Press New York and London 2011 "There …
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“Battle for Brooklyn” and Eminent Domain Abuse
(Image: Rumur Inc.) Do we really accept that Big Money - through intimidation, bribery or some other coercion - can shove us out of our homes and …
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“Divinity of Doubt”: An Agnostic Probes the God Question
With books like “Helter Skelter” and “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” under his belt, author Vincent Bugliosi is no stranger to writing about controversial topics, and …
How Disney Instills Greed and Consumerism – Starting at Three Months
It doesn't matter how enjoyable the products - there is something bigger beneath the family-friendly exterior.
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Violence, Interrupted
At the heart of Gandhi’s revolution was a new kind of hero: brave, but also compassionate; bold, but also empathetic; powerful, but also unarmed. For millennia, traditional heroism had …
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Can Out-of-Control Local News Kill People?
(Image: Createspace) Determined to trump its closest competitor in the ratings game, a local Philadelphia television news station produces an “exclusive” segment that shows surveillance video of …
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Better This World: the Imaginary Terrorists
“We had to absolutely prepare for a catastrophic terrorism incident,” says an FBI Special Agent involved in planning security for the 2008 Republican Convention, “and the planning ideology that …
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Zinn’s “on Race” Traces Violence, Victories in Civil Rights Movement
“on Race” by Howard Zinn, Introduction by Cornel West Seven Stories Press, 2011, $14.95 paperback, 236 pages Princeton professor Cornell West's tribute to the late …
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The People’s Rogue: FDR vs. the Nine Old Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Photo: Wikimedia) The president must have been savoring that afternoon of December 26, 1936. Tea was served, and the president entertained his attorney general …
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“Orwell Rolls in His Grave“
(Image: Sag Harbor-Basement Pictures) As a member in good standing of the media, I watched “Orwell Rolls in His Grave” with a wince and a feeling of …